I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One of the things that was most shocking to me about starting to work in the funeral industry is just how industrial the environment is.
A funeral was a great form of entertainment. A wake was a great form of entertainment.
If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, very difficult time, you're going to have to look pretty hard to find a profession that gives you more opportunities than the funeral business.
I don't believe in funerals. I believe in celebrating life, and showing people, while they're alive, how much I care about them. And I don't believe in this business of burial. I'm an organ donor. Whether its my skin or my eyeballs, use whatever bits are intact and put the rest in the garbage.
Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.
There is something irresistibly funny about a funeral. More basically, I think the point is that beyond the deepest tragedy, there is laughter. Even in the midst of tragedy, there is always the possibility for it.
I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.
Funeral by funeral, theory advances.
I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.
In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.